Talk about prophetic

"Except they haven't made a Mortal Combat game in years."

What difference does that make?

And it's "Mortal Kombat", NOT "Mortal Combat". Try to learn to spell AND think before you give one-sentence criticisms.

He didn't say MK games would be made until 2010. He said "soon" you will "be able to PLAY" Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam! (Actually, that could be also taken to mean that you can travel to Vietnam, to play Mortal Kombat with a friend there).

And with Kaillera system that became relatively popular after this movie was made, pretty much ANY Arcade game that works in MAME (and even many other games) DID make it possible for anyone to play Mortal Kombat with a 'friend in Vietnam' - provided that they had a friend there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaillera

Kaillera makes it possible and perfectly feasible to play Mortal Kombat via the internet in two-player mode.

So, his prediction came true, regardless of what "they" have made "in years" (remember when this movie was made - that's right, 1996 - and Kaillera was born in the early 2000s, a few years after this movie was made).

He didn't say anything about NEW Mortal Kombat games, just that Mortal Kombat itself can be played - and pretty soon after this movie, it DID become a possibility indeed.

Besides, at the time of Kaillera's birth, "they" were still making new Mortal Kombat games anyway.

This movie is 18 years old - do you seriously expect one remark about one game to carry on indefinitely into eternity? Did you expect that for his words to have been prophetic, NEW Mortal Kombat games would have to be made for the rest of the eternity?

I mean, why would you even think (much less write) that? Your post makes no sense, when you think about it. And I can't figure out what kind of thinking makes anyone write a nonsensical post like that.

Also, I'd like to add that he only used that as a reference to what will be possible in the future, not something that everyone should be fixated on FOURTEEN YEARS LATER, for crying out loud. He couldn't have predicted FUTURE games of course, so he simply used a contemporary game as an example of what can be done in the future.

Besides, those old games are still _JUST_ as playable as they ever were. Games don't age, like people do. If something was good in the past, it will _always_ be good. There is no such thing as 'dated' or 'aged' game, because the game never ages - it stays exactly the same. People age and their perceptions, exceptions, attitudes and appreciations transform, change and "age", but that's not the game's fault.

If a game was good once, it always will be, regardless of what happens around it or how many years go by.

And if a game seemed good back then, but is objectively speaking crap now, it always was crap, and people were simply being caught in the hype, and had misaligned perceptions. The game itself was never good, and never will be.

That's why you can see people still playing the old classics from the seventies, eighties and nineties. Sometimes even the zeroties (?), like the Sega Dreamcast and Sony Playstation 2 gems. The games remain just as playable now, as they were then.

Heck, I still amuse myself by playing intense sessions of Atari 2600 games, and that device was released to the public in the seventies. It hasn't "aged" or "dated" at all. The games are just as good as they ever were. It's not the platform's fault, if people get bored by it or its games.

So there is no "except". His statement was 100% and purely PROPHETIC, which means that it DID come true completely. Even though it was an easy prophecy to make, almost like predicting that hard drive capacity and CPU power will grow in the future, it was still a prophetic thing to say.

Of course multiplayer games were nothing new back then, even Doom could be played via various networking systems, but I am not sure how feasible it was to play it via the internet. Internet was just beginning to grow rapidly, when just a couple of years before, the masses had hardly even heard the term.

But to be able to play Arcade games via internet as multiplayer - that still seemed almost unbelievable, as those games were never designed for that. And the CPU power to emulate Mortal Kombat in MAME wasn't at everyone's fingertips in 1996 (I think this was the time when a lot of people still had 486s and Pentiums (133-200 MHz) were starting to sell well).

So it seemed like a 'big dream' at the time. And it came true a few years later. Your post is -COMPLETELY-IRRELEVANT- to this whole conversation, and sequence of transpired events, and I suggest deleting it to avoid further embarrassment.